Tech – Page 4 – Oddball Update

Fix Slow WebDAV Performance in Windows 7

December 18, 2009February 21, 2012 Chief Oddball 59 Comments

I have an iPhone file storage app called Air Sharing that uses a WebDAV server to let you connect to it with a PC. For some reason, a few weeks after installing Windows 7, file transfers to or from this (or any other) WebDAV server became incredibly, mind-numbingly, literally-33.6K-dialup slow.

Slingbox Setup with Wireless Ethernet Bridge

November 10, 2009September 21, 2011 Chief Oddball

From time to time, I’ll post something here that’s primarily a note to myself. You might wonder why I don’t simply write this down in a document and store it on my computer someplace. In addition to my hope that these notes may offer some value to others as well, the reason is largely organizational.

An Apple For Apple

November 1, 2009May 8, 2012 Chief Oddball 2 Comments

“What the hell’s wrong with this computer now?” I groused this past Friday morning as my wife reported to me that her Dell laptop had suddenly lost connection to our wireless network…again. As I futzed around with the machine, I eventually realized that the cooling fan was running full-tilt and the keyboard felt like there was a five-alarm fire raging underneath it.

ComputerWeek

August 5, 2009June 29, 2012 Chief Oddball 4 Comments

Wasn’t “ComputerWeek” once a publication full of hardware deals and stuff like that? Seems like it was, but we’re reaching back into the 1990s with that one. Regardless, I’ve certainly spent a lot of time around computers this week. Not that I don’t normally; after all, I work with them for my job, which has me sitting in front of one for at least 8-10 hours a day.

What a Pain

July 29, 2009September 21, 2011 Chief Oddball 2 Comments

I thought I’d wrapped up all of my side jobs, but one came back to haunt me this week in the form of some changes that needed to be made to something I did a couple weeks ago. A whole lot of changes.

Fix Wrong Sender on WordPress Comment Notification Emails

July 17, 2009September 21, 2011 Chief Oddball 2 Comments

Since I moved this blog over to a new web host, there’s been a cosmetic — but annoying — problem with my comment notification emails. I finally figured out how to solve it, and because I devised the solution myself after being unable to find a quick answer on the Web, I thought I’d better document the procedure here.

Goodies and Gadgets

June 8, 2009September 21, 2011 Chief Oddball 3 Comments

We’re back from our trip to Vero Beach feeling both refreshed and happy to be home. We got a chance to enjoy essentially all of the activities that we’d hoped to while away — lying on the beach, the cool waters of the Atlantic, miniature golf, sleeping in, reading (and in my case, writing), watching movies, and exploring.

Kool-Aid, Apple Flavor

March 19, 2009September 21, 2011 Chief Oddball

It was one year ago that I bought my first piece of Apple technology (Apple as in “Computer,” although they have since excised that word from their name): the iPhone. Three months later, the iPhone 3G landed, making us all feel like gits (although in retrospect, the AT&T mandatory data plan on the original iPhone is a much better value!).

Jumped on the iPhone Bandwagon

March 4, 2008September 22, 2011 Chief Oddball 3 Comments

So last week, as I was shaking off the last vestiges of whatever ridiculous illness I was suffering from, I did something I’d been meaning to do for a while now: I bought a 16 GB Apple iPhone. Love it or hate it, I find that the iPhone is another example of Apple’s exemplary user interface design.

WAMP, Vista Style: Pitfalls to Avoid

February 2, 2008September 22, 2011 Chief Oddball

Last week, I decided to try migrating to Windows Vista again. Yeah, yeah, save it. Anyway, after spending the last two hours trying to figure out why Apache’s mod_rewrite feature was not working, and then discovering it was the stupidest of the most stupid possible reasons, I decided to post a few “warning signs” here for you comrades who are traveling the WAMP road.

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